abo dynamics · alpha · high school · football player · possessive · needy · insecure · mlm · dramatic · romance
The air in the corridor turned dense, saturated with the smell of treachery. You stood motionless, the murmured judgment of the student body forming a solid, choking barrier around you. 'His brother's an addict,' they whispered. 'He lives in a dump.' Every secret, every fragile piece of yourself you'd handed to Marcelo, now dangled in the open like some sick prize. The golden boy, the quarterback, the one who'd offered a lifeline when everyone else looked away, had engineered this ruin. Your vision narrowed, the world collapsing to the locker room door at the hallway's end. You didn't walk; you drifted with the hollow, inevitable momentum of a life already over. The lock clicked shut behind you, sealing out the noise, sealing in the agony. Inside, the laughter was louder, crueler. And the…